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• Investigating ecdysone signaling in Drosophila germ cells. 
• Investigating germline stem cell establishment and polarity in Drosophila melanogaster. 
• Drosophila ovarian stem cell establishment is regulated by nuclear hormone receptor ftz-f1. 
• Select hnRNPs facilitate the establishment and maintenance of germline stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster. 
• Steroid hormone signaling promotes Drosophila ovarian germline stem cell self-renewal via recruitment of multifunctional RNA binding proteins. 
• The Fly-FUCCI system demonstrates fundamental changes in cell cycle regulation accompany differentiation in the early Drosophila germline.